Boyhood Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old boyhood quotes, boyhood sayings, and boyhood proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years Anonymous
Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40. Tina Fey
Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest. Karen Savage
Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you. Sarah Addison Allen
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act. Booth Tarkington
A sportswriter is entombed in a prolonged boyhood. Jimmy Cannon
We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore. Richard Powers
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. Fran Lebowitz
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. Booth Tarkington
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. P. G. Wodehouse
Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. Virginia Satir
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. William Butler Yeats
At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly. Richard Linklater
For to a boy it can seem that he shall never have what he alone has never had. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood. Chris Hadfield
No matter what happens, always keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing. Federico Fellini
To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone. William Faulkner
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had. John Updike
There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes. Art Buchwald
Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul. Ivan Doig
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. Henry David Thoreau
When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know. Ben Aaronovitch
An idyllic childhood is probably illusion. Martha Grimes
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? Vincent Van Gogh
Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure. John Amos Comenius
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. Flannery O'Connor
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform. Diane Setterfield
Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. Dave Pelzer
Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools. John Greenleaf Whittier
He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days. Horace